Celebrity Couples Who Grew Up Together

Posted by Denette Wilford on December 21, 2017

While Hollywood is the place where people fall in love, and fall right back out just as fast, it's kind of nice to see celebrity couples who've been together before all the fame hit. It was a simpler time when love was easy, but are still going strong. Thanks to their humble beginnings, they still know how to keep things real.

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Snoop Dogg and Shante Taylor

Snoop met Shante when they attended Polytechnic High School in Long Beach, Calif. They got married in 1997, and have three kids, but things got rocky when he filed for divorce in 2004. Somehow, though, they overcame their challenges, (like these celebrities who survived cheating and stayed together), renewed their wedding vows in 2008, and are still together.

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Bono and Alison Stewart

They met when she was 12 and he was a year older — and have been together ever since, marrying in 1982 and share four children. Ahh, young love.

Jon Bon Jovi and Dorothea Hurley

Together since high school, they got hitched in a secret Vegas wedding, pissing off a lot of their family, friends and his band members. Pfft, what did they know? Four kids and 28 years later, they still seem like newlyweds.

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LeBron James and Savannah Brinson

The high school sweethearts have two sons (LeBron Jr., born in 2014; Bryce, in 2007) before they got married in 2013. They added daughter Zhuri to the mix and they are one big (and tall), happy family.

Prince William and Kate Middleton

They ran in similar circles but were friends first, meeting in 2001 while both lived in residence at the University of St Andrews. They dated, split, but quickly got back together and were engaged shortly after. Married since 2011, the Cambridges have two children, one on the way and they're living the royal life.

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Jeff Daniels and Kathleen Treado

Daniels married his college sweetheart in 1979 and the couple have three children.

Kendrick Lamar and Whitney Alford

Despite all the fame and accolades, the rapper is "loyal to the soil" to his longtime love of a dozen years, to whom he got engaged in 2015.

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Stephen Curry and Ayesha Alexander

Steph and Ayesha first met in a church youth group when they were in high school. They dated in college and married in 2011. He now has two NBA Championship rings, making him one of the highest paid athletes, she's got her own cooking show, and their two kids might be the cutest things on the planet.

Heather Morris and Taylor Hubbell

They attended the same high school in Arizona — but didn't know each other at the time. When she moved to L.A., he reached out to her on Myspace, which is proof that they've been together long. They had their first son in 2013, married in 2015 and had their second son in 2016.

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Ja Rule and Aisha Murray

The rapper spotted new student Aisha coming off a bus and knew they were meant to be. The parents of three are still very much together — despite the ridiculous rumours that he left his wife for his prison cellmate in 2013.

Ozzy Osbourne and Sharon Osbourne

She was 18 when she met Ozzy, while working for her father who was managing Black Sabbath at the time. And they've been together ever since — though, admittedly, it hasn't been smooth sailing. But that's what happens when you can't get enough of a person; she forgave him for his infidelities and they're making it work.

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Mariano Rivera and Clara Younce

The Major League pitcher and Younce first met when they were in elementary school. They married in 1991 and have three sons.

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Rick Hilton and Kathy Richards

Paris, Nicky, Barron and Conrad's parents met when Kathy, Kyle and Kim's half-sister, was 15 and Rick was 19. They married three or four years later, making 38 years seem like NBD.

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Sarah Heath and Todd Palin

The high school sweethearts eloped in 1988, and have been together ever since. They have five kids and four grandchildren.

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Anthony Mackie and Sheletta Chapital

Mackie and Chapital have known each other since they were seven years old, and dated on-and-off since they were in grade school. They rekindled their romance for good while Mackie was rebuilding homes in New Orleans after starring in the 2009 film The Hurt Locker, and secretly got married in 2014. They're the parents of three.

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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis

They officially started dating in 2012 (and have since married and have two daughters) but Ashton and Mila first met in 1998 on the set of That '70s Show. He was 20 and was dating January Jones at the time; she was 15 and had a huge crush on him. And the first time their characters kissed was the actress' first kiss. Aw.

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Ron Howard and Cheryl Alley

They met in a high school English class and were married four years later, in 1975. Four kids and 42 years later, they're living the marriage dream. Swoon.